in unix-like OSes, double slash is effectively taken to mean root.<div><br></div><div>e.g. /foo/bar//baz.el would mean /baz.el</div><div>This convention is somewhat rooted in unixes.<br><div><br></div><div> Xah<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Mike Mattie <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:codermattie@gmail.com">codermattie@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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I have noticed that paths in Emacs are sensitive to double separators e.g:<br>
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(load /foo/bar/baz.el)  ;; works<br>
(load /foo/bar//baz.el) ;; broken<br>
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The same behavior occurs with (find-file).<br>
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This doesn&#39;t seem like a good thing. Is there a good reason for<br>
it that I am not aware of ?<br>
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GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2009-03-07 on localhost<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Mike Mattie<br>
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